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A multi-scale meteorological dataset of the June 2013 flood in Southern Alberta, Canada
| Description: | From June 19 to June 22, 2013, intense rainfall and concurrent snowmelt led to devastating floods in the Canadian Rockies, foothills and downstream areas of southern Alberta (Canada). The complexity of the topography in the upper catchments and the presence of snow at high elevations made, among other factors, hydrological forecasting challenging for this extreme event. This dataset contains an ensemble of variables at different resolutions (10, 2.5 and 1 km) that can be used to drive hydrological models during this extreme event. The latest operational version of the Canadian Numerical Weather Prediction model GEM (Global Environmental Multi-scale) was used to recreate the atmospheric conditions during the flooding event. Short-term 12-h forecasts were produced 4 times per day from 18 June 2013 00 UTC to 22 June 2013 12 UTC. Four 6-h quantitative precipitation estimation products were then generated using the Canadian Precipitation Analysis (CaPA) system by varying (i) the station density (especially in the upper parts of the catchments) and (ii) the horizontal resolution of the GEM precipitation background. |
| Authors: | Vionnet, Vincent; University of Saskatchewan;  0000-0002-9142-9739Fortin, Vincent; Environment and Climate Change Canada; 0000-0002-2145-4592Gaborit, Etienne; Environment and Climate Change Canada; 0000-0002-9787-9124Roy, Guy; Environment and Climate Change Canada Abrahamowicz, Maria; Environment and Climate Change Canada Gasset, Nicolas; Environment and Climate Change Canada; 0000-0003-4542-4408Pomeroy, John; University of Saskatchewan; 0000-0002-4782-7457 |
| Keywords: | flood modelling precipitation analysis Canadian Rockies |
| Field of Research: | Earth and related environmental sciences > Hydrology > Soil hydrology
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| Publication Date: | 2019-04-04 |
| Publisher: | Federated Research Data Repository / dépôt fédéré de données de recherche |
| Funder: | Global Water Futures Program (GWF) Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF); Global Water Futures Program (GWF) |
| URI: | https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0130 |
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| Geolocation Box: | West Longitude -120.00 East Longitude -108.07 North Latitude 54.74 South Latitude 47.84 |
| Appears in Collections: | Global Water Futures |
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Vionnet, V., Fortin, V., Gaborit, E., Roy, G., Abrahamowicz, M., Gasset, N., Pomeroy, J. (2019). A multi-scale meteorological dataset of the June 2013 flood in Southern Alberta, Canada. Federated Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0130
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